Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game movie storyline. In the 1970s, Roger Sharpe was a New Yorker struggling to rebuild his life as a writer, with his only escape being playing pinball. Although Roger finds work with a magazine and love with a woman, Ellen, whom he first met in an elevator, he discovers that the City has banned pinball for decades as gambling.
With this challenge to his passion, Rogers is inspired to write first a magazine article and then a book about pinball with Ellen and her son, Seth, helping him. Although reluctant to answer the call by the Music and Amusement Association to join the fight to change the pinball law, Roger finds the need for a little fairer world is broader than just pinball as his love with Ellen is challenged by his frustrations. With that, Roger struggles to find a balance even as life leads him to accomplishing the improbable with one pull of the plunger.
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game is a 2022 biographical comedy-drama film directed and written by the Bragg brothers. The film stars Mike Faist. It is based on true events around the story of Roger Sharpe, GQ journalist and real-life “pinball wizard” who in 1976 helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball.
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game made its world premiere at the 2022 Hamptons International Film Festival. It was released in select theaters and VOD on March 17, 2023. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2023)
Directed by: Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg
Starring: Mike Faist, Dennis Boutsikaris, Crystal Reed, Christopher Convery, Mike Doyle, Damian Young, Bryan Batt, Olivia Koukol, Connor Ratliff, Carlos Lopez, Todd Susman, Eric William Morris
Screenplay by: Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg
Production Design by: David Allen Butler
Cinematography by: Jon Keng
Film Editing by: Michelle Botticelli
Costume Design by: Annie Simon
Set Decoration by: Emily Powrie
Art Direction by: Nicholas Sabio
Music by: Rob Barbato
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Vertical Entertainment
Release Date: March 17, 2023
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